Disney Struck by ‘Monster Attack’

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Disney Goes on a Rampage: Disney has picked up the rights to Monster Attack Network, Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman’s graphic novel about an island in the Pacific filled with monsters and the team of adventurers who deal with their rampages. Of course, as we all learned in the eighties, most of these will probably end with said monsters transforming into naked men and cowering off-screen. [HR]

Universal’s Soul Mate: The studios must work together if we’re to win the War on Original Ideas, so we’re kind of disappointed in Universal, who seems to be going through the motions by remaking the 2007 Danish film, Island of Lost Souls, for Nikolaj Arcel to direct. What kind of half-assery is this? The prosperity of our nation depends on Universal to remake Carlito’s Way, 1941, or Weird Science! [Variety]

Railsback Stops in Barstow:Steve Railsback will direct Barstow, a script by his late brother Philip Railsback (writer of the upcoming Flash of Genius) about three desperate characters trying to find hope in the small, depressing town whose unofficial motto is “halfway to Vegas, all the way to unfathomable loneliness.” [HR]